USA Today reported last year that health experts are urging the Department of Defense to ban tobacco use in the military.

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Afghan policeman Kabuli smokes a cigarette, in front of a district police station currently occupied by US soldiers and Afghan National Police, in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.

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Unidentified US soldiers from L Trp 4/25CR rest before a foot patrol in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010.
Smoking is dangerous. So is Afghanistan.
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